Veritas NetBackup™ 5240 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (Version Not Specified)
Platform: Veritas 5240
  1. Hardware overview
    1.  
      About the appliance and the storage shelves
    2.  
      Appliance disk drives
    3.  
      Appliance control panel
    4.  
      Appliance rear panel
    5.  
      Storage shelf disk drives
    6.  
      Storage shelf control panel
    7.  
      Storage shelf rear panel
    8.  
      Cables
    9.  
      About IPMI configuration
    10.  
      Product documentation
  2. Preinstallation requirements
    1.  
      Customer-provided environment and supplies
    2.  
      Storage shelf shipping container contents
    3.  
      Appliance shipping container contents
    4.  
      Enabling SAS tape-out functionality
    5.  
      Determining rack locations
    6.  
      Best practices for rack installation
    7.  
      Heat dissipation
    8.  
      Verifying SAS-3 cable length
    9.  
      Prerequisites for IPMI configuration on a 52xx and 5330
  3. Installation procedures
    1.  
      Installing the storage shelf rack rails
    2.  
      Installing the storage shelf into a rack
    3.  
      Installing the appliance rack rails
    4.  
      Installing the appliance into a rack
    5.  
      Attaching the storage shelf bezel
    6.  
      Understanding appliance and storage shelf connections
    7.  
      Connecting an appliance to one storage shelf
    8.  
      Connecting an appliance to more than one storage shelf
    9.  
      Connecting the network cables
    10.  
      Connecting the power cords
    11.  
      Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
    12.  
      Configuring the IPMI port from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
    13.  
      Accessing and using the Veritas Remote Management interface
  4. Appendix A. Adding one or more storage shelves to an operating appliance that does not have any storage shelves
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Preparing the appliance
    3.  
      Removing the appliance cover
    4.  
      Installing the Expansion Storage Kit components
    5.  
      Reinstalling the appliance into the rack
    6.  
      Storage shelf rack requirements
    7.  
      Determining rack locations
    8.  
      Installing the storage shelf rails
    9.  
      Installing the storage shelf or shelves into a rack
    10.  
      Understanding appliance and storage shelf connections
    11.  
      Connecting one storage shelf to an appliance
    12.  
      Connecting two storage shelves to an appliance
    13.  
      Connecting three storage shelves to an appliance
    14.  
      Connecting four storage shelves to an appliance
    15.  
      Connecting the network cables
    16.  
      Connecting the power cords
    17.  
      Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
  5. Appendix B. Adding storage shelves to an operating appliance that has at least one storage shelf attached
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Moving the MSDP partition from a base disk to an expansion disk for optimum performance
    3.  
      Additional storage shelf scenarios
    4.  
      Installing storage shelves to an appliance that has at least one storage shelf
    5. Recabling to connect additional shelves
      1.  
        Connecting additional shelves to an appliance that already has one operating shelf
      2.  
        Connecting additional shelves to an appliance that already has two operating shelves
      3.  
        Connecting a storage shelf to an appliance that already has three operating shelves
  6. Appendix C. Adding the disk space of additional storage shelves
    1.  
      Adding the disk space of additional storage shelves from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
    2.  
      Adding the disk space of additional storage shelves from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
  7.  
    Index

Connecting three storage shelves to an appliance

Note:

The cables in the following diagrams are shown in different colors for demonstration purposes only. The actual cables are black.

Note:

The SAS-3 cable blue tab should align with the white SAS-3 cable label on the I/O module.

To connect three storage shelves to an appliance

  1. Connect a SAS-3 cable to the left RAID port in the appliance.

    Be sure that the blue tab on the connector in the appliance port points down.

  2. Connect the other end of this cable to port A in the top I/O module of the storage shelf.

    The blue tab on the SAS cable in port A should be on the same side of the cable as the SAS label when connected.

  3. Connect another SAS-3 cable to port B in the top I/O module of the first storage shelf. Connect the other end of the cable to port A in the top I/O module in the second storage shelf.

    The blue tab on the SAS-3 cable should be on the same side of the cable as the SAS-3 label when the cable is connected.

  4. Connect a SAS-3 cable to port B of the top I/O module in the second shelf. Connect the other end of the cable to port A in the top I/O module in the third shelf.

    The blue tab on the SAS-3 cable should be on the same side of the cable as the SAS-3 label when the cable is connected.

  5. Connect a SAS-3 cable to port A of the bottom I/O module in the third shelf.

    The blue tab on the SAS-3 cable should be on the same side of the cable as the SAS-3 label when the cable is connected.

  6. Connect the other end of the cable to the right port in the appliance RAID PCIe card.

    Be sure that the blue tab on the connector in port A points up. The blue tab in the appliance port connector should point down

  7. Connect a SAS-3 cable from port B of the bottom I/O module in the third shelf to port A in the bottom I/O module in the second shelf.

    The blue tab on the SAS-3 cable should be on the same side of the cable as the SAS-3 label when the cable is connected.

  8. Connect a SAS-3 cable to port B of the bottom I/O module in the second shelf. Connect the other end of the cable to port A on the bottom I/O module in the first shelf.

    The blue tab on the SAS-3 cable should be on the same side of the cable as the SAS-3 label when the cable is connected.

Next, connect network and power cables. Turn on the storage shelves and the appliance per the required sequence. Verify that all units function correctly.